Datasync

Basics

• Allows data to be moved in and out of aws
• Used to handle huge scale, each agent can manage transfers upto 10GB/S
• Each job can manage 50 million files
• It keeps metadata like timestamps & permissions
• It has build in data validation
• Pay as you go with cost for GB of data transfer. It supports NFS and SMB
• DataSync agent is installed on OnPrim infrastructure. It communicates with DataSync endpoint in AWS
• Task defines a job , defines what how from & to of data transfer
• Agent is the software that reads or writes to SMB or NFS based storages